Services

Strategy & Research

Bespoke research projects that facilitate improved understanding and communication of issues, role players, adaptable best practices and the drivers of change, in topics such as:

  • Resilient social and economic development

  • Equitable urban land markets

  • Integrated mobility and transit

  • Data governance, technology resilience and digital strategies for tomorrow

  • Governance models for complex issues, such as urban management and transitioning to alternative service delivery models

  • Tactics for system change

Programme and project leadership

Programme, project and team management aimed not only at improving delivery but enhancing your teams’ leadership capabilities for working on complex challenges and in uncertain environments.  This includes focusing on:

  • Problem-driven processes, and user-focused product development

  • Abilities to collaborate, persuade, partner and influence

  • Design, implement and close adaptive (agile) programme management 

  • Institutionalising products, agreements, learnings and change

Structured group processes

Design and facilitation of structured group processes aimed at strategy and implementation:

  • Improving system insights by re-charting your knowledge of root problems and role players

  • Developing strategic foresight to anticipate the future of your industry, your operating environment, or the issues you care about

  • Identifying and planning strategic and collaborative responses to new knowledge

  • Understanding institutional, legislative and political blockages to implementation

  • Designing, managing and monitoring formal and informal partnerships and collaborations

  • Leadership training and development for teams and individuals

  • I respect the privacy and confidentiality of my clients. I will not upload client data or reports to language or other learning models without their explicit, informed consent. If any client has an AI Policy, that policy will be complied with.

  • I engage AI tools in an exploratory capacity. This implies leveraging the models to generate initial drafts, ideas, and perspectives that may inform my final work, and also to test the potential contributions of available tools to our discipline.

  • I utilize AI to streamline tasks. This includes accepting suggested edits in built-in tools in email and word processors, as well as using available AI tools by providing detailed prompts to the AI, requesting editing, refinement, critique, or formatting support. By utilising detailed prompts the use of AI not only speeds up the workflow, but also allows a high degree of customization in the final output.

  • While AI aids the initial and intermediary stages of work, I retain complete control over the final output (together with any teams I am collaborating with). I meticulously review and edit all AI-generated content, ensuring it accurately reflects my expertise, encompasses locational specifics, and to the best of my own knowledge does not replicate biases. I also verify any specific data or references it may produce. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically language models like GPT-4, are tools that I utilize to enhance efficiency in my consulting and blogging efforts. Recognizing the advancing capacities of these AI models, and their increasingly significant role, this policy outlines the principles that guide my use of such tools.

AI POLICY

  • I acknowledge that AI is an evolving field and am committed to staying abreast of the latest advancements and adjusting my practices accordingly.

  • In any instance where AI-assisted content is made public, I will strive to disclose the use of AI, respecting the principle of transparency.

  • I will ensure that AI usage aligns with ethical principles, including respecting user data privacy, maintaining confidentiality, and avoiding any harmful applications, as well as sharing lessons on its usage for those engaged in governance.

  • This AI Policy may be updated periodically to reflect the evolving nature of AI technology, feedback from others, and its application in my consulting and blogging work. It is an assertion of my commitment to responsible, ethical, and effective use of AI.

This policy was written by submitting bullet form principles to ChatGPT, and then editing the suggested policy it produced.

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